Comedian Josie Lawrence and theatre star Paapa Essiedu will appear at the BBC Proms as part of a classical music education initiative.

They will take part in the Ten Pieces Prom, which returns to the Royal Albert Hall for the fourth year running.

It will see the Ten Pieces Children’s Choir welcome more than 400 children from across Greater London to the Royal Albert Hall stage, alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers under conductor Rafael Payare.

Ten Pieces Prom in 2017 (Pete Dadds/BBC)

The prom includes collaborations with English PEN, an arts charity that works with young people from asylum-seeker and refugee backgrounds, and London Music Masters, an organisation focused on reaching children and young people in London’s inner-city schools.

The actors will join Naomi Wilkinson to guide the audience through the family friendly concert where some of the greatest pieces of classical music will be heard.

Lawrence, best known for her turns in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, EastEnders and Humans, will be joined by award-winning theatre company founder Essiedu, best known for his title role in Hamlet at the RSC in 2016.